Carnival Corporation, the Panama domiciled holding company in the Carnival Corp & plc group, and Carnival plc that is the group's UK domiciled holding company, and their lenders have agreed to extend the maturities of three credit facilities by one year to June 2020.

"On April 23, 2015, in respect of all of the facilities provided under our $1.7 billion, 500 million and 150 million multi-currency revolving credit agreement, as amended and restated on June 16, 2014, by and among Carnival Corporation, Carnival plc, and certain of Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc subsidiaries, Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited, as Facilities Agent, Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited, Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., J.P. Morgan Limited, Lloyds Bank plc, Mizuho Bank, Ltd and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, as mandated lead arrangers, and each of the other banks or other institutions party thereto (the "Facility Agreement"), the termination date was extended from June 16, 2019 to June 16, 2020 pursuant to the extension request procedures set forth in the Facility Agreement. A description of the Facility Agreement was disclosed in Item 2.03 of the Form 8-K filed by Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc on June 17, 2014 and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03 except with reference to the expiration date of the Facility Agreement," Carnival group said in a statement."

"Some of the lenders under the Facility Agreement and their affiliates have various relationships with Carnival Corporation, Carnival plc and certain of their subsidiaries involving the provision of financial services, including cash management, investment banking and trust services. In addition, Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc have entered into other loan arrangements as well as fuel, interest rate swap and foreign currency exchange derivative arrangements with certain of the lenders and their affiliates," Carnival said.